![Item #295 Manbyō Baryō shinkyū satsuyō [Equine acupuncture and moxibustion therapies]....](/pictures/thumb/295.jpg?v=1669842469)
Tokyo et al. Nishimura Genroku et al. 1769.
First edition of a compelling layperson's manual for the care and well-being of horses, illustrated with full-page woodcuts of horses mapped for acupuncture, acupressure, bloodletting, and moxibustion. The book is a thorough vade mecum on equine diagnostics, prognoses, preventative care, and nutrition.....
Brussels [i.e. Nancy]: S. n., 1775.
In 1775, the Mercantile Corps of Thionville declined to grant a license for a commercial venture to a Jew of Metz, Moyse May, an industrious printer and publisher of Hebrew liturgical texts who had operated under the name Joseph Antoine since the late 1750s.....
Madrid: Matheo Blanco, 1711.
First edition of Spanish physician Miguel Marcelino Boix y Moliner's first book, a defense of Hippocratic medicine and rejection of Galenism, composed when the author was in his seventies. The work distanced him from colleagues at Madrid, where he had already been under fire for practicing.....
London: R. Hawes, 1775.
An unattested edition of the founder of Methodism John Wesley's infamous argument for taxing the American colonies, and his general condemnation of Americans, published in the year before Independence. A Calm Address represented a reversal of sentiment on the part of Wesley; until its first appearance.....
Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....
London: J. Roberts, 1734.
Only Edition. Robert Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and most influential politician in Great Britain, had come about his power by avoiding foreign wars, and had elevated his popularity (at least among the landed gentry) by reducing the land tax from £4 to £1 over.....
![Item #47 CAPITOLI Coi quali l'Ill[ustrissi]mi Congregazione DELL' OSPITALE DI SANTA MARIA DE'...](/pictures/thumb/47.jpg?v=1600702529)
Modena: 1774.
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises essentially the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially.....
Lisbon: Lino da Silva Godinho, 1781.
First edition, second issue, of the first bibliography of Portuguese law. Though this is the true first edition recorded by Innocêncio, a prior issue, dated 1780, exists, which is distinguished by three instead of five preliminary leaves. The author chose to include, in both.....
Lisbon: 1765.
Chapbook report of the trial and sentencing of one Jacintho Yorc for the "tyrannical" murder of his young wife, Luciana Kin, in Transylvania in July of 1765. Much of the reportage centers around the sensationally grisly torture and execution of Yorc, who was burned with red-hot irons, his.....